Cyril Connolly Quotes About Passion
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Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
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The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.
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We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.
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A mutually fulfilled sexual union between two people is the rarest sensation which life can provide. But it is not quite real. It stops when the telephone rings. Such a passion can be kept at its early strength only by adding to it either more and more unhappiness (jealousy, separation, doubt, renunciation), or more and more artificiality (drink, technique, stage-illusions). Whoever has missed this has never lived, who lives for it alone is but partly alive.
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No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian.
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